Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac

What happened

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This shouldn’t be a major problem – most PCs made in the last 15 years or so will quite happily run the 64-bit version of Debian, as will most Intel-based Macs. (Debian support for Apple Silicon is still experimental, so unfortunately those of you with the latest and greatest shiny fruit products will not be able to run this.) Raspberry Pi Connect compatible The new Raspberry Pi Desktop is fully up to date with all the latest desktop changes , such as the Control Centre and the new dock. It works in exactly the same way as on a Raspberry Pi; the only difference is that when you set up a PC for Connect, you will be asked to enter a name with which to identify that device – this isn’t required on a Raspberry Pi, where a unique hardware ID is used instead.